• UK suspends Indian student visa applications

    Updated: 2010-01-31 09:11:22
    The UK Border Agency has temporarily suspended student visa applications from northern India, Nepal and Bangladesh after a jump in numbers. In the last three months of last year, there were 13,500 applications from northern India alone, compared with 1,800 in the same period of 2008. British officials say the system has been overwhelmed and there are [...]

  • Cost of UK flood protection doubles to £1bn a year

    Updated: 2010-01-29 20:31:08
    More than half a million homes are at “significant” risk of flooding and the cost of protecting them will double to £1bn a year by 2035, according to the latest data from the Environment Agency (EA).   The rising costs will be incurred from the impacts of climate change that will take effect in the coming decades, [...]

  • Food Security: The Challenge of Feeding 9 Billion People

    Updated: 2010-01-29 18:18:35
    Continuing population and consumption growth will mean that the global demand for food will increase for at least another 40 years. Growing competition for land, water, and energy, and the overexploitation of fisheries, will affect our ability to produce food, as will the urgent requirement to reduce the impact of the food system on the [...]

  • Rwanda: Family Planning Crusade Taken to the Villages

    Updated: 2010-01-29 16:26:11
    Local leaders at grass-roots level – Umudugudu, are championing the family planning drive given the threats posed by the country’s fast growing population. After a four-hour community work (Umuganda) early Saturday, residents of Intwari Village in Kimironko Sector assembled for a meeting in which the country’s fast growing population, apart from other matters, took centre stage. The [...]

  • Jobless Indians ‘face ruin’ in UK

    Updated: 2010-01-28 23:09:46
    A section of Indians who have come to the United Kingdom on student visas say they are facing financial ruin as they cannot find work. Many have been getting free meals at a Sikh gurdwara in west London, as Poonam Taneja of BBC Asian Network reports. It is lunchtime in the kitchen of the Sri Guru [...]

  • One in five pregnancies ‘unplanned’

    Updated: 2010-01-28 23:03:05
    Nearly one in five babies due to be born this year were conceived by accident, according to a survey of expectant mothers. The high number of unplanned pregnancies could be the result of some adventurous sexual exploits, as the same poll revealed almost half the conceptions took place outside the bedroom. More than 1,000 parents-to-be were quizzed [...]

  • French fishermen fear end of sushi bonanza

    Updated: 2010-01-28 23:01:44
    “They will be disappointed today. Mackerel and sardines are just not there,” says a fish trader at the Pecherie Cettoise, next to the Sete wholesale fish market. “It’s the tuna, they eat the other fish and there are too many of them.” Environmentalists say the bluefin tuna — much sought after in Japan — must be [...]

  • Australian PM Shrugs off Population Growth

    Updated: 2010-01-28 22:59:05
    Lisa Valentine | Thursday, January 28th, 2010 at 3:05 pm Could this be Bondi Beach in the year 2050? Shocking new figures released by the Australian government show that the Australian population could rise to almost 35 million by the year 2050 – largely due to the number of Australian immigrants. Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has previously been [...]

  • New-morning after drug is abortion pill, campaigners say

    Updated: 2010-01-28 22:57:25
    A new morning-after pill that can stop women becoming pregnant for almost a week after unprotected sex has prompted a row over fair access to medication. The drug, ulipristal acetate (UA), is effective up to five days after sex compared with the three-day window offered by the conventional emergency pill. It was licensed [...]

  • Needed: A Copernican Shift

    Updated: 2010-01-27 15:17:13
    Thanks to Lester Brown for this article. ————————- In 1543, Polish astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus published “On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres,” in which he challenged the view that the sun revolved around the earth, arguing instead that the earth revolved around the sun. With his new model of the solar system, he began a wide-ranging debate [...]

  • Indochinese tigers on brink of extinction: WWF

    Updated: 2010-01-26 23:27:44
    A new report by wildlife group WWF says tiger populations in the region that includes Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam have fallen to 350 from an estimated 1,200 in 1998. Globally, tiger populations are at an all-time low of 3,200, down from an estimated 5,000 to 7,000 some 12 years ago. more http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE60P5F520100126?

  • Pupil to be taught about sex at seven

    Updated: 2010-01-26 17:44:57
    Pupils will be taught about how boys and girls develop – including the production of sperm and eggs – before they leave primary school, it was disclosed. New-style lessons between the age of seven and 11 will also focus on the importance of strong relationships and marriage – as well as the risks of abuse and [...]

  • Why the Environmental Movement Dropped Population – the DVD You’ve Been Waiting to See – at no cost

    Updated: 2010-01-21 15:29:31
    Thanks to Bonnie Erbé for this press release and the offer of a free DVD. It may take two months for delivery of the DVD after you email to Bonnie, but it will be worth the wait. ————————– To the Contrary Telephone Contact: 202-973-2066 FREE PUBLIC EDUCATION DVD ON POPULATION & THE ENVIRONMENTAL MOVEMENT Free DVD Copies of [...]

  • A Bill to Prevent Child Marriages.

    Updated: 2010-01-21 15:25:21
    Below is a press release from sponsor Representative Betty McCollum about the International Protecting Girls by Preventing Child Marriage Act of 2009. McCollum Bill (Word doc., 45 KB) Thanks to Bob Walker for the following summary of the bill: Authorizes the President to provide assistance, including through multilateral, nongovernmental, and faith-based organizations, to prevent [...]

  • A Bill That Would Help Women Worldwide

    Updated: 2010-01-21 15:22:26
    The column below is by Global Media Award winner Bonnie Erbé about the International Violence Against Women Act of 2008 (H.R. 5927). You can send a supportive message to your Representative at the UNite Campaign to End Violence against Women’s website (http://www.saynotoviolence.org/join-say-no/tell-us-congress-pass-international-violence-against-women-act-ivawa

  • PMC Partners with Solutions

    Updated: 2010-01-20 16:47:05
    Solutions For a Sustainable and Desirable Future We are pleased to announce the debut of Solutions, an online and print publication devoted exclusively to showcasing bold and innovative ideas for solving the world’s environmental, ecological, and socio-economic problems. Launching in January 2010, Solutions is a unique hybrid between a popular magazine and an authoritative peer-reviewed journal. The website, [...]

  • Afghanistan: Few rural women use family planning services

    Updated: 2010-01-20 16:34:32
    Family planning services are available in over 90 percent of health facilities across Afghanistan but the number of women using them in rural areas is too low, according to the Ministry of Public Health (MoPH). Hamida Ebadi, director of MoPH’s reproductive health unit, reckoned only 14-15 percent of women in rural and remote regions use [...]

  • The war for Afghanistan’s women

    Updated: 2010-01-20 16:32:27
    Congratulations to Malcolm Potts for this editorial in the Los Angeles Times. —————————- There are two wars going on in Afghanistan. One is to defeat the Taliban, and that war is not going well. The other is to liberate women, and that war has hardly begun. If the first war is won but the second is lost, [...]

  • Afgan Girls Burn Themselves to Escape Marriage

    Updated: 2010-01-20 16:30:47
    We watched a teenage girl die last Friday. Seventeen-year-old Shirin had been brought to the Herat Regional Hospital Burns Unit a few days before we met her. Ninety percent of her body was covered in third-degree burns. Her mother-in-law said Shirin had burned herself by accident. The girl was preparing a meal in the kitchen but somehow [...]

  • Ignore the Bluster of Demographic Winter Alarmists

    Updated: 2010-01-19 20:43:07
    (written by Joe Bish, Population Outreach Manager for Population Media Center) ——————————- Can you visualize 850 jumbo jets landing at your local airport today and each deplaning 250 people? If so, you will have a good grasp of daily, real-time global population growth. Indeed, human numbers increase by over 200,000 every 24 hours. Every minute, 150 additional people [...]

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